Dem presents sparse at the prayer vigil for Charlie Kirk on Capitol Hill
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The president of the room, Mike Johnson, led a prayer vigil for Charlie Kirk inside the statuary room of the Capitol on Monday evening which was open to members of the two parties. While the dozens of Republicans and the first three senior leaders of the Chamber were present on the eve, their democratic counterparts were not presented by Fox News Digital.
The representatives Debbie Dingell, d-mich., Tom Suozzi, Dn.y., Don Davis, Dn.C., John Larson, D-Conn., Jimmy Panetta, D-Calif.
“Writing reminds us that we should not be defeated by evil, but we have to overcome evil with good. It is Charlie Kirk’s inheritance,” Johnson told those who were gathered at the vigil. “I think the best way to honor the memory of Charlie Kirk is to live as he lived.”
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Mike Johnson room president, R-La., Leads a vigil to honor Charlie Kirk at the American Capitol on Monday, September 15, 2025. (AP / J. Scott Applewhite)
The head of the majority Steve Scalizes, the majority whip Tom Emmer and the president of the republican conference, Lisa McClain, also offered words of homage to the day before.
“The assassination of Charlie Kirk was not only an attack on an individual, it was an attack on the traditional values that make our country this great country,” said Emmer. “Great values of freedom of expression, civil speech, public debate, the ability to think independently and express your opinions, exchange ideas and even not agree with each other, but do it without fear of physical reprisals.”
EMMER added: “The fact that he was killed for this, and many Americans therefore celebrated his murder, asks the question: how do we move away so far from the values on which our nation was built” more important, how can we come back? “”
A view of flowers and photographs posed by mourning people outside the United States Embassy in Pretoria on September 11, 2025. (Phill Magakoe / AFP / Getty Images)
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Legislators on both sides of the aisle managed to condemn the tendency of political violence after the assassination of Kirk. But, despite the condemnation and expressions of pain on both sides of the political aisle, there have still been controversial moments on the hill after Kirk’s death.
On the day of Kirk’s death, a moment of silence for the activist killed inside the house of the house transformed into chaos after the republican representative of South Carolina, Lauren Boebert, asked that a spoken prayer is said in addition to a silent prayer, which was greeted by the protest of the Democrats. Some would have started to shout how the Republicans had ignored a school shooting that occurred the same day as that of Kirk, according to the media. Meanwhile, representative Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., Stunned and started to shout, saying: “You all caused it.”
Representative Ilhan Omar, d-minn., Faced with the efforts of the Republicans to strip her of his assignments and committee seats after having disparaged Kirk’s heritage shortly after his assassination.
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After the murder of Kirk, she told the progressive media Zeteo that Kirk “had previously” minimized slavery and what the blacks experienced in this country by saying that Junete should not exist “.
“There are many people who talk about him who just want to have a civilian debate,” said Omar. “There is nothing more erased, you know, than to completely pretend that, you know, its words and actions have not been recorded and existing in the last decade.”
